vietnamese means south vietnamese. is south vietnamese different than being vietnamese. and so i want to be careful about just laying the problem or the failure of the american war in vietnam or a krupp saigon government. because i think we -- on a construct saigon government. in all wars that are political and military gaining accurate intelligence is incredibly difficult. i think that the route american experience in vietnam defining key terms was incredibly difficult. this is a war about security. what does security mean. it is about governmental control. what does control mean? trying to gain accurate definitions on these key terms, security, control, pass fix, body counts. awful these that were critical to measuring progress and effectiveness in vietnam, i think the definitions themselves were contested. and because of that it was difficult to gain accurate intelligence how the war was progressing. >> next question. sir? >> you said in a case study at the war college what you gave your students was how would they develop a military strategy based on the political pa

i never saw that kind of zeal on the part of the south vietname vietnamese.he is an adviser to the cia had already started. >> you are absolutely right some were very good but they worked hard. the natural liberation and the fighters against the united states were nationalists. when you go to vietnam now, you come out of the customs office and if you see across the building, popeye's, louisiana cuisine, starbucks. you talk and ask if they like and they say yes we killed so many. and they say the war is over. when he won. we never saw it as a war of natural liberation and there is no way that it would ever end unless they one. we had no stake in there and the idea that we were fighting as a political position was totally false. the war should have ended when the french left and the election held and we stopped it from happening. you seem to keep talking only about the communist part of it and bought the liberation part of it this was a communist movement and on the other hand when i try t tried to say if the evidence is overwhelming i think a lot of historians

i speak vietnamese. i spoke a lot better vietnamese in the 1990's than i do now, but my vietnamese is good enough to talk to people without the government escort who happens in many cases to be an interior ministry figure. you know, monitoring everything that they say. are, like, four different constituencies in vietnam during the war, and in some cases since the war. in the north, they sent a lot of soldiers and they lost a lot of soldiers, and they really did not feel the day-to-day brunt of the war. in the south, and they were -- obviously, they were with that side. in the south, meaning the area saigon andou know, out, they were 90% with us. when i got back to vietnam in 1991, i came in with senator bob curay. he asked me to come with him as a friend. i was not in government at the time. because i worked with the vietnamese. and i stayed when he left, and i just got two sicalo guys just to drive me around, and it was like the victory parade we never had. these people were coming out of the woodwork.

the 2 million vietnamese. in the succession that lasted through the case exceeded the cost of the 21st century war in afghanistan. it's up on its times for any modern strike. during the last phase especially it is the dismay of hundreds of millions destroying one u.s. president and contributing to the second. a by capitalism and imperialism appeared and exceptionally ugly manifestation. if convicted humiliation upon the planet's most powerful nation. the stairway of the 29th of april sent to the rooftop helicopter to secure a place among with symbolic images. those were all the generations of correspondence that struggle among the foremost experiences of our careers. by president lyndon johnson about his commitment to the war. some of you like blondes, redheads are some don't like at all in that dead weight goal and to emphasize the planes. we can sit down and talk. we were preparing to leave. i want to ask if any of you feel different from anything you've read or heard about me before you came. for the disast

this war and this country meant a huge amount in my life to meet vietnamese. but on the 28th of may, 1968 a 20 -year-old machine gunner in vietnam today there isn't much to say i would say everything is fine but it is not so those in massachusetts received a telegram from the marine corps parliament that your son died on the second of june with those are airstrikes the remains will be prepared and shipped accompanied by an escort or national cemetery selected bayou and you will be reimbursed in the amount not to exceed $500 for funeral and interment expenses. 16899 received in homes in 1968 by the end of the war of those compatriots have died 13 north koreans 771 chinese so this bloodbath far exceeded the human cost from afghanistan and syria and iraq. moreover vietnam had cultural impacts to me it rows the dismay of hundreds of millions to destroy a us president and in the wave of protest that swept the west in the sixties rejection of morality to be conflated against capitalism and imperialism of which vietnam with that ugly manifestation. moreover those ame

. >> tens of thousands of young americans and vietnamese died. that's what was at stake. >> it was horrendous, it was tremendo treason by any standard. >> this wealthy and connected asian american woman could change history. >> lbj knew there was collusion. >> it's definitely a smoking gun with regard to richard nixon's involvement and actions. >> they're contacting a foreign power in the middle of a war and that oughten to be doing this. this is treason. >> it's november 3rd, just two days before the 1968 presidential election. >> mr. president, i'm getting him right on. >> mr. president? >> yes. >> in a call secretly recorded by the white house, president lynden johnson draws a line in the sand for his old adversary. >> johnson is desperate to get the north vietnamese and the south vietnamese at the peace table. >> we all want them to come and hope they'll come really believe they'll come. >> nixon was trying to sabotage those peace talks. if peace talks were announced before election day, that would help his opponent and it would destroy nixon

what are the north vietnamese -- who do the north vietnamese want that the south vietnamese don't want? who would be the obvious? vietcong. they don't want to recognize them, do they? some of you probably have studied for your final paper project reading the tang memoir of vietcong memoir. so they don't want them represented, and the north vietnamese are like, we really don't want that puppet government in saigon represented. can you see some of the problems that could result? who gets to come to the table? and then they start arguing what is the table going to look like? do we do a circular? do we do a square? do we put -- who is going to make that determination? how big is it going to be? basically here's what the north vietnamese are doing. this is lee duong who really -- ho chi minh's picture there but ho had been outmaneuvered by duon who was a southerner time and time again for the last two or three years. he pushed the tet offensive even though ho and another were saying, not a good idea. continue to try to wear them down. putting our forces out in the open just makes it easy fo

so he can check with her and make sure are the south vietnamese going to hold firm?not going to come to the peace talks? >> november 2nd, the fbi tapped the south vietnamese telephone and overheard anna chennault telling the south vietnamese ambassador hold on, we're going to win. >> from president bui's perspective, it's no little thing to defy the president of the united states. but this gave him confidence to go forward in front of his national assembly and make the speech. >> the united states have ended the bombing. >> this where anna chennault is important because she was saying, you know, if you defy johnson there is another president, if you help him get elected who would stand by you. namely richard nixon. >> president tu, america's ally drops his own bombshell on lbj. the government of south vietnam regrets not being able to participate in the present exploratory talks. south vietnam's president sends a signal to washington, loud and clear, three days before the american election. there will be no peace talks while lyndon johnson is in office. with the cloc

for the vietnamese those numbers were even more grim.116,000 dead in just seven months. >> in a standard day you'd go into a village and start searching it. throwing stuff around inside somebody's house. and worse. you don't win hearts and minds by burning down houses and shooting chickens and by taking target practice on some farmer. not that these things were typical, but they happened often enough to not win hearts and minds. i used to remember thinking, god, this is so different than how this war is being portrayed back home. something valiant and noble and containing communism. >> the time has come for honest government in the united states of america. >> in miami richard m. nixon stood before the republican party and for the second time in his life accepted their nomination for president of the united states. >> we shall begin with vietnam. >> nixon was very two-faced about this. >> we all hope in this room that there is a chance that current negotiations bring an honorable end to that war. >> in public in his acceptance speech at

so he can check with her and make sure are the south vietnamese going to hold firm?to come to the peace talks? >> november 2nd, the fbi tapped the south vietnamese telephone and overheard anna chennault telling the south vietnamese ambassador hold on, we're going to win. >> from president bui's perspective, it's no little thing to defy the president of the united states. but this gave him confidence to go forward in front of his national assembly and make the speech. >> the united states have ended the bombing. >> this where anna chennault is important because she was saying, you know, if you defy johnson there is another president, if you help him get elected who would stand by you. namely richard nixon. >> president tu, america's ally drops his own bombshell on lbj. the government of south vietnam regrets not being able to participate in the present exploratory talks. south vietnam's president sends a signal to washington, loud and clear, three days before the american election. there will be no peace talks while lyndon johnson is in office. with the clock ticking

for the vietnamese the numbers were even more grim.ast 116,000 dead in just seven months. >> the standard day going into a village and start searching it. throwing stuff around inside somebody's house. and worse. you don't win hearts and minds by burning down houses and shooting chickens. and by taking target practice on some farmer. not that these things were -- typical. but they happened often enough to not win hearts and minds. >> i used to remember thinking god this is so different than how this war is being portrayed back home. something valiant and noble and containing communism. >> the time has come for honest government in the united states of america. >> in miami richard m. nixon stood before the republican party and for the second time in his life accepted their nomination for president of the united states. >> we shall begin with vietnam. >> nixon was very two-faced about this. >> we all hope in this room that there was a chance for current negotiations bring an honorable end to that war. >> in public in his acceptance speec

who did the north vietnamese want that the south vietnamese don't want? who would be the obvious? the vietcong. they don't want to recognize them, do they? some of you studying for your final paper project, reading the vietcong memoir. so they don't want them represented. and the north vietnamese are like, we don't want that puppet government in see conrepresented. did you see some of the problems that could result? who gets to come to the table? and then they argue what is the table going to look like? do we do a circular or a square, who is going to make that determination? basically here is what the north vietnamese are doing. and ho chi minh's picture is there, but ho had been outmaneuvered for the last two to three years. he pushed the tet offensive, even though others were saying not a good idea. continue to try to wear them down. putting our forces out in the open makes it easy for them. but he thought and he believed generally that the south vietnamese people were ready for the revolution. he's a hard liner. the negotiating tactics is this. talking while fighting, fighting

does vietnamese mean south vietnamese? so i want to be careful about laying the problem of -- or the failure of the american war in vietnam on a corrupt saigon government because i think we -- that's difficult. i think clearly in all wars that are political and military, gaining accurate intelligence is incredibly difficult. i think throughout the american experience in vietnam, defining key terms was incredibly difficult. this was a war about security. what does secure mean? this is a war about governmental control. what does control really mean? and trying to gain intelligence on those key definitions, security, control, body counts, all of these critical terms that were so important to measuring progress and effectiveness in vietnam, i think those definitions themselves were contested. and because those definitions were contested, it was even more difficult to gain accurate intelligence on how the war was progressing. >> next question. sir. >> you said in a case study at the war college that what you gave your students

almost half of vietnamese are under the age of 30.they call here "the american war." those years were a defining time for just about everyone, vietnamese or american, who lived through them. and though there are still a lot of conflicted feelings back home, for most vietnamese these days, the war has become an abstraction, not even a memory. vietnam is still a poor nation, but the standard of living has improved a lot with the relaxing of hard-line communist economic policies. more and more foreign tourists every year, western chains, inevitably, are everywhere, and president obama is visiting for the first time, taking another step on the long path toward normalizing relations between the two countries. that is good. ooh, hot. ooh, i hit that chili hard. ♪ [ bells ding ] ♪ [ horn honks ] [ thunder crashes ] ♪ >> tao: nice to meet you. >> anthony: yes. >> tao: it's such a pleasure. >> anthony: oh, and we have a beer ready to go, great. >> tao: yes. so, we are doing by bottle or we are going to pour it in a glass? >> anthony: how would

. >> the north vietnamese. i'm half awake. the proves the americans can never hold the initiative. no matter how many people, you're never going to hold this country. by doing a mass military engagement you're showing you may lose the battle -- >> but what are the indicators that people are going to rise up? go ahead. >> you have your intelligence network. your network is telling you things. you have to believe them to a certain extent. you can look at your political cadres and the fact they have survived and they have been successful in assassinating south vietnamese officials. we have been successful for ten years. we can just show them we can be here and have success. >> other indicators, 1966, another one of these vietnamese elections where another general strongman takes over. the president starts to then crack down a little bit or perceived to crack down on the buddhists and so there is an uprising inside of saigon to the point that units are fighting each other in the streets of saigon. now, if i'm watch

almost half the vietnamese are under the age of 30.y call here the american war. those years were a defining time for just about everyone, vietnamese or american, who lived through them. and although there are still a lot of conflicted feelings back home, for most vietnamese these days, the war has become an be abstraction, not even a memory. vietnam is still a poor nation, but the standard of living has improved a lot with the relaxing of hard line communist economic policies. more and more foreign tourists every year. western chains inevitably are everywhere. and president obama is visiting for the first time, taking another step on the long path toward normalizing relations between the two countries. >>> that is good, ooh, hot. ooh, i hit that chili hard. ♪ ♪ >> it's such a pleasure. >> and we have beer ready to go. >> yes. we're doing by butter or in a glass? >> how would you do it if i wasn't here? >> i would put it in the glass. >> okay. >> in vietnam, in particularly in the north, it would be improper for a woman to drink from t

henry kissinger had contempt for almost anything vietnamese. he had as a major tenant the saigon government had to be intact. he would have learned that there is a majority of the population that was probably if they were not already, the majority were not already in the camp they were probably anti-communist so there was a sizable population that could have been mobilized in any other situation if would have mobilized the force. the agreement was built on the back of mobilizing that society whether it was a nonpartisan relationship so that is what the good negotiators do but that is not at all what happened here. they were not consulted about it, they were not taken into consideration and at the end of the day the united states withdrew and threw saigon under the bus. there were 58,000 americans, 3.82 million for the preservation of south vietnam and it wasn't taken seriously at the end and that to me is trag tragic. >> let me turn to a greek earning theme you argue with the way that they manifested itself in the conduct. the question of ambit

and the south vietnamese. >> what you know if you are richard nixon? >> that us needed to take a backseat to the south vietnamese, and let them handle their business. >> any problem with that? >> it is going to take a lot to help them out. >> they are not probably ready to totally take over and they still need some of our support and resources and things like that to be successful. >> they would still have to face what west moreland face, conventional forces. >> the military reality on the ground has not change. you still have a lot a very strong forces in play here. >> if we took the front stage of defeating the conventional forces like we did in iraq, they are not ready to, and the enemy comes in and they cannot hold their own. >> nobody is agreeing to the way for. the dod as usual puts a happy face on and the cia says everything is terrible, and you get everything in between, but what they all agree on is that it these guys are going to take over, they are not ready for it. what ultimately becomes a strategy of nixon, there is classification. what i

of americans in 1975 did not want to accept vietnamese refugees. for a country that prides itself on the american dream, refugees are simply un-american. despite the fact that some of the original english settlers of this country, the puritans, were religious refugees. today, syrian refugees face a similar reaction. to some european, these refugees seem unyou're-european, for reasons of religion culture and language. and in san bernardino, california, and orlando florida, have people fearing that syrian refugees could be islamic radicals. forgetting that those refugees are some of the first victims of the islamic state. that's a really powerful connection to the perception of vietnamese refugees as potential communist in fiat filtraters when they were one -- infiltrator when they were ones who were fleeing persecution at the hands of communists in asia. i continue here. because that dozens have been rendered on many, or who were cast out or fled, it is important for those of us who were refugees to remind the world of what our experiences mean. a v

where nobody spoke vietnamese. so i served my one year in a place called phoon yon, which was midway between placu and bamituit. i had one year as an infantry advisor as to what we just heard in our last presentation, to the rough puffs and the people self defense forces. >> great. before we go on with some personal side, i'd like dr. milam, can you talk a little bit about the results of your research? you did an excellent analysis of the three commissioning sources during this period. kind of share with us what the various officer asessions were doing to prepare their officers to be small unit leaders. >> typically up until vietnam, about 70% of all commissioned officers are commissioned through the rotc programs. at the beginning of the vietnam war, there were about 160,000 rotc cadets in america. three years later there were 40,000. rotc programs around the country, some places actually closed. stanford, harvard, brown. they dropped their rotc programs because of their opposition -- because of the school's oppos

we killed a lot of north vietnamese. i only lost four men. i think i did my job, because we operated against a very -- by the way, i had a lot of respect for the enemy. as light infantry, they were good, they were i'd yo logically motivated. they had the desire and they would come in close. but if we didn't meet them in these bunker complexes, we were bumping into them in the jungle. that's what the army called a meeting engagement, it's really a fancy name for a dirt floor texas bar knife fight. when the first burst -- i'll tell you what it was like. the first burst in the jungle fight, everybody disappears. they do the right thing, they hit the ground. when you're a company commander, they teach you can move where you best influence the action, i had two radio operators, battalion and company frequency the recon sergeant is caring radio, we had a command group of six people. yet when the fighting started, i had to move to find where people were. you can't do that all by radio. and so the challenge was getting people motivated. i had a thing

. >> reporter: the organization behind the vietnamese language mailer says it was sent every vietnamesemerican voter in milpitas. it was sent on saturday, three days before the elections which trahan calls these statements untrue and hurtful.>> reporter: when he saw a headpiece depicting him as one who likes to drink he let it go. a mailer accusing him of a communist took it to the extreme. >> it is a disgrace to every vietnamese american to ever call america home. >> reporter: he is running for a second term against five other candidates. the mailer shows his picture with the vietnamese communist black. the words under it translate in english is who is the yellow star going to serve? it also shows chi minh and a priest being mishandled in a vietnamese court. >> these types of hate mail bring back traumatic experiences for my mother. >> it upset me because the vietnamese community is very sensitive to accusations of communism.>> reporter: he is not endorsing any candidate and is upset that tens of thousands of dollars were spent on a professional mailer that reopens old wounds of losing

values comparable to the vietnamese government. to that end we believe that the mailer is justified and stand by our decision. by our decision. >>> all right, 4:48 is the time right now. lets check in with sal. what are you keeping an eye on, sal? >> we're just looking pam and dave at the altamont pass commute and the approach to it. it only took about 45 minutes and it's filled in. we have a lot of peoplethe slow house parkway and 580 is slow approaching the altamont pass, there's no major issues. >> also looking at san leandro and hayward, you can see the traffic is well. if you're driving on 880 north into downtown oakland. there's a little bit of a line in some of the cash lanes which would be the far left lanes here, there would be a little delay here, if you're using fast track, you shouldn't have any delay getting into san francisco and it's not windy at all, right now on the span. >> lets bring steve in. >> thank you, sal. >> we'll get right to it. clear skies and cold out there for some. we'll show you the up the lows, the

not to come to negotiations, but north vietnamese that they will get a better deal from him.alled johnson did was call up everett dirksen, the republican minority leader, conduit to nixon saying your guys are playing dirty pool, tell them to cut it out. eventually, october 31, he also got further word and he calls up -- i'm sorry, cause of dirksen again. .. and said i would never do anything to slow the negotiations. when humphrey was briefed on november third, two days before the election by william bundy, assistant secretary for far eastern affairs and state department about what the nixon campaign was doing, humphrey knew that it was too late. there was nothing he could do. when johnson told him, johnson told him we've got it on tape i don't have hard proof, then humphrey knew exactly what johnson was telling him. if you say anything, i will not give you the tapes and, therefore, anything humphrey had to say would be regarded as desperation move. long story short, november 5, nixon won the election by less than three-quarters of 1%. he won the electoral college by 301 vote

. >> it is a disgrace to every vietnamese american that has ever called america home. >> he is running for his second term against 500 candidates. there's a picture with a communist flag. it says was under is who is this yellow star going to serve? the other side shows images of a priest being mishandled in vietnamese courts. >> these types of negative mailers and hate mail bring back dramatic experience for my mother. >> it offended me because the vietnamese community is very sensitive to accusations of communism. >> this man is also vietnamese- american and he is not endorsing any candidate but he is just upset that tens of thousands of dollars was sent on a professional mailer that reopens old wounds. >> it is certainly a mirror happening at the -- at this level. i would like to think that we in the south bay can rise above this. >> the mailer says they are funded by the coalition pact. in a statement, the organization says in part: "we never called him a communist however, his question elections as a vietnamese-american mayor and only reflect values payroll to that of the middle ea

it was organized by the german air pollution consultants and a vietnamese ngo, green i.d.he school uniform includes the red scarf of the communist young pioneersrs movement. vietnam is, after all,l, a one-party socialist state. the idea is for such workshops to become a regular feature in schools here. young people need to know how dangerous pollution is, especially for them. at this event, the s students divided into teams for a q&a session. what illnesssses does smogog c? what can you do about air pollution? who is most affected? pupils were rewarded for giving the right answerers. and they can pass on what they learned. hanh: i think that after this workshop, the students will bring their knowowledge to ther home and talk to their parents, and their brothers and sisters. tangmar: i hope they now know momore than theieir parents do t this, , and it will inspire thm to do something. reporter: the cicity authoritis are under pressure to improve public transport. work on an extensive metro system is behind schedule. there are a few express bus routes with modern vehicles, b

the commercial rouge talking to them for eradication nearly all the vietnamese were either expelled or murdered. these judgments goes beyond. international responsibility. today's judgment also justice for the thinking was it was not just the minorities who suffered the commit rouge on those leader part thought to create a communist utopia by forcibly moving people from the cities to the countryside nearly two million cambodians died from overwork starvation and mass execution during its reign of terror from one hundred seventy five to nine hundred seventy nine. museums the memorials detail the sheer horror of the past a past that lingers. they deserve to get to sentence because they committed such be crimes the rest of my family members were killed i'm the only child who survived that regime. with the perpetrators convicted of genocide. to survivors can finally hope to find closure. and award winning journalist elizabeth bakker testified at trial she told us of her experiences of cambodia under pol pot. i saw a country that was emptied of society i lived there during the war and was s

so i went with these friends there was a big battle it was the operation to clear the north vietnamese out of the province. one of my friends and i decide to go to the civilian and i was sent there by the american doctor called operation hope and the doctors who gave their time over six weeks or two months and i would say he was hysterical. i have never seen a man but in particular a doctor as he was. and to understand why there were virtually no beds people in the hallways entirely burned by napalm and swollen bodies he pointed to a dog in the courtyard and said you realize he is carrying a human leg. he was agitated like that but i put my head into a door somehow it just turned out to be an operating theater. and they were doing an operation and they said come in. come in they had no surgical gloves or anything like that and i certainly didn't i had just come in with the dust and the filth of the field. come in come in. they start chatting what are you doing here? and so on. and i thought they were trying to get a bullet out of this woman's body and i thought please pay attention don

i mean, a lot of them spoke vietnamese. didn't matter but they just, it was a subject which really didn't come up very much nor did losing. this was the real difference with john paul's land, i don't know if you've ever heard of him but there's a great biography of him. at this point in his life he had actually been thrown out of the army because he had been so obstreperous with the command, and he was working as a sort of quasi-civilian. in any case he said, is the question to me is, why vietcong were always very strong right next to saigon, 60 miles from saigon. he said, why did the army keep getting defeated there? and was a question that dan ellsberg took, like a piece of string, and started pulling at the string and he would find one at your after another. everything he pulled down came down to vietnamese politics. that was the end. that was the end of the piece of string. >> it was a soviet journalist, talk about the soviet war in afghanistan, wrote a wonderful book called the hidden war. he says experience travelers

the vietnamese, the laotians, certainly knew. the only people who didn't, was the american public, and congress. ♪ i took a walk through this beautiful world ♪ ♪ felt the cool rain on my shoulder ♪ ♪ found something good in this beautiful world ♪ ♪ i felt the rain getting colder ♪ ♪ sha, la, la, la, la, ♪ sha, la, la, la, la, la, ♪ sha, la, la, la, la,, ♪ sha, la, la, la, la, la ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> anthony: though never actually at war with laos, at the same time we were fighting in neighboring vietnam. the united states flew more than a half a million missions over this tiny southeast asian nation. dropping more bombs here than on germany, and japan in all of wwii combined. this only a part of the largest covert military operation in history. a conflict that became known as "the secret war." there were three intelligence officers, key players in this secret war, who depending on who you talk to were either greatly loved, or greatly feared and despised. anthony poshepny, also known as tony po, had an extensive paramilitary background as

but he said that his actions parallel the vietnamese. and they went on to say that the mailer was justified. >>> politics seems to be gal galvanizing latino and women voters, partly because of president trump's immigration policies. they is also motivating women. facebook removed 115 accounts ahead of the mid-term election. facebook said that the authorities alerted them to accounts sunday night. 30 pages on facebook and 85 on instagram. they believe that the beings may be linked to foreign entities. facebook will provide updates on the situation once it knows more. >>> republican candidate for governor john cox will deliver coffee and doughnuts at polling places today. the campaign bus rolled into the bay area one last time yesterday and spoke to them -- employees and owners at an auto shop. >> right now buller he's -- builders don't want to build in the state. >> on the first day in office he said that he would call a special session to devote 100% attention to california's housing crisornewsom is scheduled cast his ballot at 1:30 this

the khmer rouge was notably anti—vietnamese.will be a slightly anticlimactic verdict, whichever way it goes. these two men are the only senior khmer rouge leaders to have been convicted. two others who were charged died before they were able to get to the verdict. so in a way this is just charges being piled on people who have already been sentenced to prison for life. but it is a moment, once these verdicts are in, for everyone to reflect on the value of these international hybrid tribunals, and on whether in fact any kind ofjustice has been served in looking into the atrocities under the khmer rouge. briefly, nearly $300 million has been spent in these trials, and only three convictions. have they really been worth it? that's a question, i think, that is currently being debated, and will continue to be debated for a long time. this has been in many ways an unsatisfactory process. it's a hybrid system where cambodia ultimately has a veto, and the current leadership has restricted the legal processes to just a few senior leaders

. >> after all this work all year johnson finally had a package that the north vietnamese would acceptwas selling it to the south vietnamese. >> nixon gets a top secret briefing from the commander in chief on his progress towards peace. and what does nixon do? he betrays the president and the nation. >> what nixon did with that information, how he got away with what president johnson called treason and what his actions cost, thousands of americans and vietnamese, are the subjects of a special report called betrayal. you can catch it this friday at 9:00 p.m. eastern on msnbc. that does it for us tonight. now it's time for the "last word" with ali velshi. hi, ali, how are you? >> this is kind of weird this is the only place we meet these

. >> after all this work all year johnson finally had a package that the north vietnamese would acceptling it to the south vietnamese. >> nixon gets a top secret briefing from the commander in chief on his progress towards peace. and what does nixon do? he betrays the president and the nation. >> what nixon did with that information, how he got away with what president johnson called treason and what his actions cost, thousands of americans and vietnamese, are the subjects of a special report called betrayal. you can catch it this friday at 9:00 p.m. eastern on msnbc. that does it for us tonight. now it's time for the "last word" with ali velshi. hi, ali, how are you? >> this is kind of weird this is the only place we meet these days, but it's terrific to see you. have an excellent thanksgiving. i'm thankful for the privilege of working with you and for being your friend. >> i will take any opportunity to see you. thank you, my friend. have a wonderful show and wonderful thanksgiving. >>> the blue wave is getting bigger and president trump is facing more resistance than he has ever fac

. >> do you cook vietnamese? >> i do vietnamese. >> you mom taught you to cook.es there are moments in the connection where she still checks me and says tu, this needs more pepper or seasoning. mama is always king. >> do you say mom, i'm on tv. i'm the professional chef in this kitchen. no, you don't. >> try to pull that every now and then. my mom, she wears the pants in the family. she always checks me in the back of the head when i say a stupid remark like that. >> it was my stupid remark. but you're all inked up. i love some of the means behind your tattoos. show some of the four ingredients you think key. >> this is my seasoning hand. love, pepper salt, and in vietnamese essence of passion. so with all four essential ingredients, it makes the perfect dish. >> your whole body like a menu. what else have you got? >> i have han made on my hands, and most of this art, because i grew up in my teens, i was very active in oil paints on canvas, which translated into graft. >> the i did a lot of murals in my room. and doing tattoos was a way to preserve the art that i

. >> after all this work all year johnson finally had a package that the north vietnamese would accept, and he was selling it to the south vietnamese. >> nixon gets a top secret briefing from the commander in chief on his progress towards peace. and what does nixon do? he betrays the president and the nation. >> what nixon did with that information, how he got away with what president johnson called treason and what his actions cost, thousands of americans and vietnamese, are the subjects of a special report called betrayal. you can catch it this friday at 9:00 p.m. eastern on msnbc. that does it for us tonight. now it's time for the "last word" with ali velshi. hi, ali, how are you? >> this is kind of weird this is the only place we meet these days, but it's terrific to see you. have an excellent thanksgiving. i'm thankful for the privilege of working with you and for being your friend. >> i will take any opportunity to see you. thank you, my friend. have a wonderful show and wonderful thanksgiving. >>> the blue wave is getting bigger and president trump is facing more resistance than

traditionally vietnamese and filipino americans are about more public and leaning. the chinese in the past have been more democratic leaning, but now we are seeing them not identifying with either party for those undecided voters. in terms of issues that motivate them, it's similar to the latino community. .. unof the growing trends is that not enough of the political campaigns are reaching out to these voters. we're starting to see changes, like in virginia, especially in northern virginia, with the virginia 10 congressional race. nevada, such a close race that they are both republicans and democrats are courting courtinge asian-american, filipino vote in nevada, and we -- watt of -- the race will be tight. and then in houston, texas, carney, he went ahead and established a field program in 16 different languages and went through -- he has volunteers identifying asian-american votes and subethnic groups and have the vonn reach out to them in different languages. he was not expected to win the primary but increased primary participation by increasing asian-american

the commute from one nine hundred seventy five to nine hundred seventy nine who survived but his vietnamese wife and three children were killed. fourteen years apart i still can't forget i think of my beloved wife my beloved children i try to forget but their birth still . calm friday's decision was welcomed by victims of the community many of whom had turned up at court to hear the judgement against the two accused the main question is the future of this tribunals it was set up twelve years ago and has cost more than three hundred million dollars three people have been convicted the cambodian prime minister hun sen himself a mid-level c'mere rouge commander before he defected has said no more suspects should be prosecuted there are cases against four other members. but it's not known whether they. were not requesting that every khmer rouge with a bloody hand it's tried that it's not reasonable that's not practical but what we are requesting and what we are saying is that three it's not enough for the lives of two million individuals but despite its flaws others say the court has delivered

family members to get their thoughts first up we have jeannie when she's president of voice of vietnamese americans and she came to the u.s. as a refugee at the end of it now war throwing out some marilyn is just you seeing he's founder of american sikhs for trump and is an entrepreneur who immigrated to the u.s. from india thirty years ago from albuquerque new mexico we have a compass a gora she is a patient educator who worked as an oral surgeon in mexico she's joined by a husband add to the sagada and he is a veteran and a pistol instructor with the national rifle association in minneapolis minnesota we have aids he is an accountant an immigrant from pakistan is joined by his daughter summer she's studying public health policy at the university of minnesota she was born in the us and we have seven and she joins us from portland oregon is president of the republican muslim coalition she immigrated to the united states from pakistan hello everybody it is good to have you reunited again so it's been a year it's been a lot of yeah lots of things to talk about i just went through your vario

the soviets were heavily responsible for the north vietnamese victory in south vietnam. they and their propaganda apparatus was a huge part of it. the north vietnamese generals the fundamental reason, may be the decisive reason for their victory, was the effectiveness of their propaganda and psychological operations against the united states during that war. to inou had procommunist south -- coup in south yemen. you had a near communist take over in namibia. you had a near communist take over in grenada and another one in nicaragua. soviet-cuban subversion all over latin america. much of this is documented in the grenada archives, which nobody studies anymore. these were the internal , whennts of the movement we invaded grenada, we got a hold of their internal documents , which had black on white agreements, soviet and east german, cuban military assistance, intelligence agreements, and so forth. there were blueprints for the destruction of the churches in grenada, which included such things as the promulgation of liberation the elegy on the island and bringing experts o